CBS Evening News - 1991-02-20

Name: CBS Evening News - 1991-02-20
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[0:02] [music]

[0:05] >> Saddam Hussein delays answer to

[0:07] Gorbachev's peace bid.

[0:09] The countdown to a ground war appears to

[0:11] be on hold until at least Friday night.

[0:13] >> [music]

[0:14] >> Secretary of State Baker says Kuwait

[0:16] will be liberated one way or another

[0:18] soon.

[0:20] >> [music]

[0:22] >> This is the CBS Evening News. Dan Rather

[0:24] reporting live [music] from Dhahran,

[0:26] Saudi Arabia. Good evening. Iraq today

[0:29] delayed its response to a Soviet peace

[0:31] plan, but renewed its promise to answer

[0:34] soon. US and Allied commanders here

[0:37] believe a deal will be done or they will

[0:40] spring their ground offensive, one or

[0:42] the other, within a week. Bill Plante is

[0:44] at the State Department, Bill.

[0:46] The waiting game has put the Bush

[0:48] administration in a bind. They're

[0:49] apparently ready, even eager, to begin a

[0:52] ground war and to finish off Saddam

[0:54] Hussein. But under considerable

[0:56] political pressure to say yes if Iraq

[0:59] accepts Moscow's offer of an

[1:01] unconditional negotiated settlement. For

[1:03] the record, the Secretary of State said

[1:05] again today that as far as the US is

[1:08] concerned, there is nothing to

[1:09] negotiate.

[1:11] Iraq must leave Kuwait

[1:14] immediately,

[1:16] totally, and unconditionally.

[1:18] And Iraq must comply fully with the

[1:20] other applicable Security Council

[1:23] resolutions.

[1:24] Anything short of that is unacceptable.

[1:27] What's truly unacceptable in the US view

[1:29] is ending the war with Saddam still in

[1:31] power with part of his military intact

[1:34] and able to argue that he stood up to

[1:36] American invaders. The Soviet plan to

[1:39] the administration and its allies might

[1:41] have just that result. It appear t